akasarin Report post Posted January 3, 2011 I am going to be doing a seat for my bike, That will be tooled, but i plan on molding it to the contours of my seat pan. Should I mold to the contour first and try tooling on the irregular contour or tool flat then mold the seat? When the leather is wetted for molding will it wash out the tooling at all? Thanks Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JRodz Report post Posted January 4, 2011 I've never done a seat, but I have done a few molded cases and sheaths and I always carved first then molded. The leather would be to hard to carve after wet molding and pressing. It may not be necessary to say, but you may need to adjust your design to work with the contour of the seat after molding. I've seen some really cool molded stuff from some of the people who post here and hope they chime in with more help. Good luck. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
